Not saying your wrong, but Tanne has to shoulder a lot of that blame as well, he is the one on the field choosing which WR to throw to, and when you watch the tape, he chooses the wrong guy too often.
Yesterday I focused on the offensive side of the ball, this morning I'll turn my attention to the defense. With the exception of Suh and Wake (sadly gone for the season and most likely his career), we have no true stars on the defensive side of the ball, but that doesn't mean we don't have some great talent. We do, but I believe our woes on defense haven't been the lack of talent, it's been the lack of guidance. For years now, our coaching staff, mind you ineptly, have been offensive minded personnel...Philbin, Sparano, Cameron; all of which were brought in to focus on our anemic offenses but it just seems to me that in the effort to ramp up our offense, the defense suffered. Granted, we brought in some great talent from Dansby to Wake to Suh but we never brought in a defensive guru to coach the talent we brought in. When Philbin was fired and the chatter was flying back and forth over what to do for the rest of the season, I stated then that Jim Schwartz should have been brought in as DC. Not that I think he would be a fine head coach, but more to the point that he is defensive minded and would know how to coordinate our defense to highlight Suh's abilities on the field. With that being said, that is what we need. We need a Schwartz, a Wade Phillips, a Dom Capers...a defensive guru to tighten up our defense, to stiffle the run, to get pressure on opposing quarterbacks and challenge receivers in the secondary. Personnel wise, sure we need to shore up a few positions but I'm nearly 100% sure that if the right defensive coaching staff was brought in, with the roster as is, our defense would be feared.
I do. The same thing I wrote last time, but in crude Spanglish... two words. First word, first letter - "B". Second word, first letter - "S." Sometimes, you have to call bovine fertilizer just what it is, even is you cannot write or say the words. Abandoning a QB after three seasons of a porous offensive line, record breaking sacks, and no running game (more because of idiocy in play calling than the caliber of the backs involved!) because you don't like the fact that he has to get rid of the ball so quickly that anything downfield is - as Monty Python would say - "RIGHT OUT!" - bespeaks more of one who is looking to place blame without thinking, or under the influence - of others who do not know football.
I think it's funny when someone says another poster doesn't know football because they picked someone different.
His cap number is 28m next year dude. That's almost the entire number we should dedicate to our DL and we need 3 more players there with the uncertainty of Wake. Again, I have 0 issue with Suh's play, but that money would be nice to put towards DEs, LBs, etc.
Like the guys we got rid of, right? Davis, Smith, Dansby, Odrick, Incognito, whoever else lol. Pretty much all the positions we need help at right now. Funny how that works out. It's almost like Ireland and Philbin were morons that didn't think about future needs. So what does Ross encourage instead? Big offseason signings and draft day picks/trades. Yeah, the answer to this thread is Ross. The players don't collectively decide on the GMs or HCs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What drugs and in what amounts did you take them that you believed that Schwartz would come to Miami as a "fill-in" head coach let alone a defensive coordinator? Schwartz believes that he can land another head coaching job. Why would he risk that to come to a team that is poorly constructed on a hope and prayer he could turn them around in mid-season with a staff of guys he doesn't know...even if they fired everyone and he brought in his own guys...well, they're on other teams right now so he can't. Even if he could bring his guys, he'd be teaching a new scheme to most players. Maybe he comes to Miami as a head coach. It would never have been during the season. It would only happen in the offseason.